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I've always been a big fan of the zombie walk. Hoards of the undead gathering together to march together and raise money and canned goods for the local food bank. People letting their creative sides loose and creating costumes that you can't help staring at. So needless to say, I was pretty excited for the Ottawa zombie walk. I made sure I didn't book anything the day of, no work or anything, just zombies, but boy was I ever disappointed.

I arrived at noon to be early enough to get as many zombie pictures as I could before the walk started. In previous years, I would arrive early and be taking non stop photos of all of the amazing costumes, and then I would run out of time when the walk started. So instead of scrambling to get everyone, I figured I would arrive early to give myself plenty of time to catch everyone I wanted.

The majority of people didn't seem to show off their creativity this year. Many had just put on a little makeup to make themselves pale, or green, and then covered themselves in blood.. Boom! I'm a zombie. That's not how things work in my mind.. and I had no interest in getting pictures of those people.. Many people seemed to treat this as a cosplay event too, which although creative in the cosplay aspect,

many were just adding blood to their cosplay.. and again.. I'm a zombie.. *sigh* This is not meant to be offensive towards the cosplayers.. I know many cosplayers, and you guys are SUPER talented.. when it comes to zombie walk, I expect more tho.. you put tons of hours in making a cosplay for Comiccon, or whatever else event.. but your effort towards zombie walk is just going to be.. Oh.. I'll just slap some blood on... come on guys.. quit phoning it in! You have the potential to have the most incredible costumes out there!

Anyways, It was nice to see families come together dressing as the undead, as the few people who went all out on their costumes.. Although not many of them, there were a few. After being there for 4 hours though, I ended up taking only about 15 pictures.

The crowd when the walk started was small.. smaller than when I usually arrive at zombie walk. With less that 200 people, I decided to leave, expecting us to not pick up many on the way. From what I heard, we were wrong.. End total I was told was about 2000, which is good.. but why were these people not there for the start of the walk? The event all around was disappointing to me though.. which sucks, but what can you do. I've been dying to do more horror stuff for Halloween.. so it would make sense that zombie walk would be the perfect place for that!

Seems that my horror needs will remain unfulfilled.. If you think your Halloween costume is spooky enough.. Send me a message, you may just get a free shoot out of it ;)